Far and Away SHORT ANSWER (a few sentences to a paragraph) QUESTIONS.
1) What did you learn about how political machines work?
Once a person gets involved with them, they’ll have control over the person, even if it doesn’t seem like it at first. They control with fear and threats, they also control the area where they live (including the cops) so they can make everyone shun a person; so most people end up in a slave-like situation.
2) What did you learn about the immigrant experience in America ?
Right off the boat, at the ports, an immigrant gets bombarded with American culture at that time, which was rowdy and violent and sneaky. They’ll meet all sorts of people, peddlers, thieves, political machine workers, etc. Being an immigrant in America is hard at that time because most natives hate the immigrants for taking available jobs. Sometimes immigrants get suckered into working for political machines and they either stay workers/slaves for the rest of their lives or they get kicked to the streets with nothing. Jobs like building the railroad were common, but they were sometimes lucky and can get land.
3) What did you learn about the Oklahoma Land Rush?
It was a free for all and kind of insane. It proved how land crazy some people were, or how much some people wanted a new start and something of their own. It proved if you want something you have to be willing to fight for it.
4) Shannon had some preconceptions about America , which were true and which were not as true?
Shannon believed it would be easy to get the free land, preferably land with a stream and green grass, which America was giving away. It was true there was free land but it was anything but easy to get to. She didn’t expect to work so hard and live like she did, nor did she expect to be delayed in getting there. She was raised kind of spoiled and so she thought it would just fall in her lap. She believed America would be modern and that was mostly true, it had modern ideas and cultures and fashion, but it was still pretty rural and unchartered.
1) What did you learn about how political machines work?
Once a person gets involved with them, they’ll have control over the person, even if it doesn’t seem like it at first. They control with fear and threats, they also control the area where they live (including the cops) so they can make everyone shun a person; so most people end up in a slave-like situation.
2) What did you learn about the immigrant experience in America ?
Right off the boat, at the ports, an immigrant gets bombarded with American culture at that time, which was rowdy and violent and sneaky. They’ll meet all sorts of people, peddlers, thieves, political machine workers, etc. Being an immigrant in America is hard at that time because most natives hate the immigrants for taking available jobs. Sometimes immigrants get suckered into working for political machines and they either stay workers/slaves for the rest of their lives or they get kicked to the streets with nothing. Jobs like building the railroad were common, but they were sometimes lucky and can get land.
3) What did you learn about the Oklahoma Land Rush?
It was a free for all and kind of insane. It proved how land crazy some people were, or how much some people wanted a new start and something of their own. It proved if you want something you have to be willing to fight for it.
4) Shannon had some preconceptions about America , which were true and which were not as true?
Shannon believed it would be easy to get the free land, preferably land with a stream and green grass, which America was giving away. It was true there was free land but it was anything but easy to get to. She didn’t expect to work so hard and live like she did, nor did she expect to be delayed in getting there. She was raised kind of spoiled and so she thought it would just fall in her lap. She believed America would be modern and that was mostly true, it had modern ideas and cultures and fashion, but it was still pretty rural and unchartered.